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"across the pond," this site can also be accessed via the domain
LawHumour.com.
IN THE NEWS:
1. "Lawyer Humor on the Web," Law Library News, University of
Washington School of Law, February 17, 2003: LawHumor.com included on
"list of top law-related humor websites" as the place "where you can ...
read a love story in the form of a law review article" (http://lib.law.washington.edu/news/2003/Feb172003.html)
2. "Surfing From River City: Top Law Humor Sites," Sacramento
Lawyer, March/April 2003: LawHumor.com included as a "funny site" (http://www.sacbar.org/saclawyer/mar_apr2003/surfing.html)
3. "Legal Humor," WashLaw WEB (Washburn University School of
Law Library), June 23, 2003: LawHumor.com listed as a
"Representative Site[]" (http://www.washlaw.edu/humor.html)
4. University of Baltimore Law Library Weblog, July 14, 2003:
Citing LawHumor.com and quoting its description (http://ubaltlawlibrary.blogspot.com/2003_07_01_ubaltlawlibrary_archive.html)
5. "Law - More or Less," Law in Popular Culture Collection,
The University of Texas School of Law, Tarlton Law Library, July 17, 2003: LawHumor.com
listed (http://www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/sites2.htm)
6. "Legal Humor, Anecdotes and Oddities: Selected Bibliography of
Materials available in the Northeastern University School of Law Library,"
Northeastern University School of Law Library, Summer Display Case,
July 21, 2003: "LawHumor.com by Lawrence Savell, a litigation attorney
from New York supplies links to witty articles and outrageous musical
parodies" (http://www.slaw.neu.edu/library/Legal%20Humor.pdf)
7. "All-singing, all-billing...," Law Society Gazette
(weekly U.K. newspaper), March 11, 2004, at 10: LawHumor.com mentioned in article
on my holiday humor album (http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/articles/45.asp)
8. "60 Sites in 60 Minutes," Presentation by Robert J. Ambrogi at ABA TechShow
2004, March 26, 2004: ("Well, are lawyers funny? That's the
big question. There's a website that attempts to answer that question,
called LawHumor.com. (Clip from 'Rainmaker Reindeer' plays.) This
is from 'The Lawyer's Holiday Humor Album.' Larry Savell is a lawyer in
New York City, and he writes humor columns. He has put out an actual
album, 'The Lawyer's Holiday Humor Album.' He's got this actually kind
of funny site, he's got a lot of his humor columns, he's got .MP3 clips,
and he's got little games on here like 'LawHumor Hangman' and 'Arrange
The Exhibits' and he's got a whole other page of little java games that
you can play. (Laughter.) He attempts to make law funny.") (Listen
to the segment.) See
http://www.abanet.org/techshow/60sitesHOF/60sites04.html:
LawHumor.com listed first among four legal humor websites. See also
http://www.legaline.com/60sites.htm: LawHumor.com listed
first among four legal humor websites.
9. "The Best Legal Websites to Help You and Your Clients," Robert
Ambrogi, Rockport, MA, Indiana Bar Association Solo & Small Firm
Conference, June 4, 2004,
http://www.inbar.org/content/pdf/GP2004/Best_Legal_Websites_to_Help_You_and_Your_Clients.pdf:
LawHumor.com listed first among four legal humor websites.
10. "Laughing at Lawyers and the Law," Robert J. Ambrogi, Law
Technology News, July 2004, at 48-49: A discussion of
LawHumor.com leads off a review of legal humor websites: "LAW is
serious stuff. But don't tell that to New York lawyer Lawrence Savell,
for fear he might abandon his endlessly entertaining site, LawHumor.com,
www.lawhumor.com. Savell dedicates his site 'to the proposition that
zealous representation of clients and furtherance of the public good can
be only enhanced by a healthy willingness to poke fun at ourselves
appropriately on occasion.' And poke fun he does, through humorous
articles, music, comics and even games. Consider, for example, 'Law
Review: A Love Story,' a lawyer love story written in the style of a law
review, complete with footnotes. Listen to excerpts from Savell's
recording, 'The Lawyer's Holiday Humor Album,' featuring songs such as
'Santa v. Acme Sleigh' and 'Rainmaker Reindeer.' Check out Savell's
Typo-Man comic book. Play games including 'Law Humor Hangman' and
'Arrange the Exhibits.' You could kill a lot of otherwise billable time
at LawHumor.com. But then you'd be missing out on the many other sites
devoted to making lawyers laugh - or to laughing at lawyers."
Also posted on Law.com (http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1090180158017).
11. "exec's dot...dot...dot..." (Executive Director's column),
Citations (Ventura County (California) Bar Association), September
2004, at 18
http://www.vcba.org/citationsmag/2004/04sept.pdf: "Websites of the
month: lawhumor.com." (first of two listed).
12. "Insites (web)," Law Institute Journal (Victoria,
Australia), November 2004, at 80,
http://www.liv.asn.au/journal/current/78-11-Nov2004-insites.html:
review by Law Institute Library: "This month . . . We also look at a law
humour site that will get you smiling . . . LawHumour.com
http://www.LawHumour.com[.]
It took a long time to review LawHumour.com because I got stuck playing
LawHumour Hangman. If you don’t get the word out after several tries, a
Donald Trump-like message flashes up stating, 'You’re fired. Send
Resume'. Move over lunchtimes spent playing Blackjack on the computer,
LawHumour.com has enough games, articles and music to keep you going
into billable time. Maintained by New York lawyer, Lawrence Savell, it
will appeal to anyone in the legal industry (despite the American
slant). If an article entitled, 'Lawyers (Allegedly) at Leisure' or the
adventures of Typo-Man sound intriguing, you too will become engrossed."
Discussed further in same issue in "Holidaze! Celebrate!," "With all due
respect" column, November 2004, at 96,
http://www.liv.asn.au/journal/current/78-11-Nov2004-With.html: "It
turns out Mr Savell’s humorous streak is not confined to music. He also
has a website,
http://www.Law Humor.com, where he says you can find
'lawyer computer games, a love story in the form of a law review
article, a law-related comic book, and even a free and
always-immediately-responsive computerised legal advice generator'.
Coincidentally, the website is reviewed in this edition of the LIJ in 'Insites'
(page 81) where it gets the thumbs up."
13. "Need a chuckle?," The Reporter (Valparaiso University School
of Law Library), July 2005, at 5
http://jury.lel.net/library/libraryinfo/reporterjuly2005.pdf: "http://www.lawhumor.com
has an impressive list of links to articles poking fun at lawyers and
the law, many of them from respected publications such as the ABA
Journal and the National Law Journal. This site also features a
selection of legal parodies such as 'Nerds in a Mass,' sung to the
tune of 'Barbara Ann' about taking the bar exam; and 'The Time for
Cramming,' sung to the tune of 'The Sounds of Silence.'" (fourth of
ten legal humor sites listed).
14. "WEBSITE OF THE WEEK[:] Lawyer humor nearly catches up with
library humor,"
WarriorLibrarian.com, October 2005: "Despite Lawrence Savell's
website [link provided to LawHumor.com] opening with audio of
dubious intent, the rest of the content could be awarded various
accolades concerning originality, a deviation from the stereotype, and
of course downright rib-tickling funny. The Law Librarian fraternity
would certainly appreciate the not excessively subtle allusions on the
site that states it is 'dedicated to the proposition that zealous
representation of clients and furtherance of the public good can be only
enhanced by a healthy willingness to poke fun at ourselves appropriately
on occasion'. In fact, it is almost on a par with Warrior Librarian. But
apart from that, it's pretty good ..."
[MORE TO COME, WHEN I HAVE A FREE NON-BILLABLE MOMENT TO POST THEM!]
LINKS:
Affiliated Sites: LawTunes.com |
LawrenceSavell.com |
LawFiction.com
Third-Party Legal Humor Sites/Pages:
Law and
Humor in Popular Culture | Madeleine
Begun Kane |
FindLaw |
Stu's Views
| LegalHumour.com |
Lawtoons.com
| About.com
| LawComix.com |
LawGuru.com
|
ComedyZone.net |
Thadeus & Weez |
Stuart
Adams Law Office |
Med
League Support Services |
Power of Attorneys | LawHaHa.com |
Paralegal
Gateway | Robert J. Ambrogi |
ChessLaw |
Global Law Review
| New York Divorce
Lawyer | Juris Comic
|
Persuasive Authority |
Scottish
Law Online |
University of Baltimore Law Library |
HumorLinks |
Dan's Cartoons |
Life Without TV |
WarriorLibrarian.com
|
"TYPO-MAN" Comic Book
